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RESOLUTION 

Of  the   General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Virginia  asserting  the  juris- 
diction  and  sovereignty  of  that  State  over  her  ancient  boundaries. 

I 'rearable  and  resolutions  asserting  the  jurisdiction  and  sovereignty 
of  the  State  of  Virginia  over  her  ancient  boundaries.  Adopted 
October  8,  1863. 

Wherkas,  Th.  General  Assembly  of  Virginia  did,  on  the  seven- 
teenth day  of  January,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  adopt  the 
following  preamble  and  resolution  : 

"Whereas,  The  public* enemy,  invited  by  domestic  foes,  being  in 
power  in  some  of  the  counties  of  •Virginia,  where  they  are  confisca- 
ting the  pn>perty  of  loyal  citizens  and  otherwise  treating  them  in  a 
cruel  manner;  and  whereas  the  traitors  there,  contemplating  a  divis- 
ion of  this  time-honored  Commonwealth;  with  the  aid  of  the  public 
enemy,  have  set  up  a  pretended  government  over  the  same,  which, 
under  the  force  of  circumstances,  could  not  be  prevented  by  the 
timely  sendng  of  an  adequate  military  force  ;  and  whereas  the  Legis- 
lature desiies  to  reassure  all  loyal  citizens  throughout  the  Common- 
wealth of  their  desire  and  intention  to  protect  them;  Therefore, 

"  Resolved,  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Delegates,  That  in  no  event 
will  the  State  of  Virginia  submit  to  or  consent  to  the  loss  of  a  loot 
of  her  soil ;  that  it  is  the  firm  determination  of  the  State,  and  known 
to  be  that  of  the  Confederate  Government,  to  assert  and  maintain  the 
jurisdiction  and  sovereignty  of  the  State  of  Virginia  to  the  utter- 
most limits  of  her  ancient  boundaries,  at  any  and  at  every  cost." 

And  whereas,  since  the  passage  of  said  resolution  by  the  General 
Assembly,  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  in  pursuance  of  its 
:-  cttlcd  purpose  to  override  and  destroy  "the  separate  existence  of  the 
states,  has  attempted  to  form  a  new  State  out  of  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia, in  contravention  alike  of  the  constitution  of  the  United  States 
and  the  constitution  of  the  State  of  Virginia;  and  is  upholding,  by 
tlio  power  of  her  armies,  certain  evil-disposed  and  traitorous  citiaens 
jf  this  State,  who  are  leagued  with  the  said  United  States  in  their 
nefarious  and  wicked  purposes  against  the  peace,  welfare,  institutions 
and  integrity  of  Virginia;  and  whereas  it  is  the  fixed  and  unaltera- 

,  "P.  \  c  oc  \  i. 


ble  intention  of  Virginia  to  maintain   and   assert  her   prerogatiV* 
set  forth  in   said   resolution  of  the  last  General  Assemblv, '  and  a^ 
proved  by  the  Confederate  Congress,  and  to  protect  alike  her  citize   a 
and  her  soil  from   the   machinations  of  traitors   within   and  enemi  >s 
without;  Therefore, 

1 .  Resolved,  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Delegates,  That  -Virginia 
maintains,  fixed  and  unalterable,  the  purpose  and  determinate 
clearly  set. forth  in  the  resolution  of  the  last  General  Assembly,  and 
that  this  General  Assembly  cordially  re-adopts  and  sanctions  the 
same,  and  re-declares,  alike  to  her  citizens  and  the  world,  that  it  is 
the  firm  determination  of  the  State,  and  known  to  be  that'  of  the 
Confederate  Government,  to  assert  and  maintain  the  jurisdiction  and 
sovereignty  of  the  State  of  Virginia  to  the  uttermost  limits  of  her 
ancient  boundaries,  at  any  and  every  cost. 

2.  Resolved,  That  the  Governor  be  requested  to  present  avcopy  of 
these^resolutions,  properly  certified,  to  the  Congress  of  the  Confede- 
rate States,  to  convene  on  the  twenty-second  of  February,  cightoci- 
hundred  and  sixty-four,  for  their  approval. 


Sjate  of  Virginia,  Executive  Department,  ) 
RiCHMOND'May  19,  1864.      ] 


I,  George  W.  Munford,  Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Vir- 
ginia, do  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  of  a 
preamble  and  resolutions  adopted  by  the  General  Assembly  o? 
Virginia  on  the  eighth  day  of  October,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
three. 

GEORGE  W.  MUNFORD, 
Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth. 


State  of  Virginia,  Executive  Department, 
Richmond,  May  19,  1864. 

To  the  honorable  the  Senate  and  House  of .  Representatives  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  : 

Gentlemen  :  The  General   Assembly  of  this  Commonwealth, 
the  eighth  day  of  October  last,  adopted  a  preamble  and  resolution 
asserting  the  jurisdiction  and  sovereignty  of  the   State  of  Virgin: 
over  her  ancient  boundaries. 

In  discharge  of  my  duty,  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  herewith 
copy  of  this  preamble  and  resolutions,  and  I  am  satisfied  it  will   I 
the  pleasure  of  Congress  to  sanction  them,  and  to  reaffirm   to 
world  the  firm  purpose  of  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  Stair- 
to  maintain  Virginia  in  all  her  just  and  ancient  rights. 

Very  respectfully, 

WILLIAM  SMITH. 


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